Last week, a dancing mates took the Internet by storm. The video of the 2 swaying to the celebrated Bollywood fig “Aa Jaane Jaan” soon went viral and got much than a cardinal views. Several channels picked up the video of what they called an “elderly Sikh couple”.
Well, astir Chandigarhians who saw the video instantly exclaimed, “Gilly!”. Well, that’s however golfers code the not-so-elderly but white-bearded Birender Singh Gill, 63, and his woman Amarjyot, 59. The 2 had gone for meal to the location of retired Haryana bull Satyender Singh astatine his Sector 8 residence erstwhile this opus was played and they decided to groove to it.
“It was an impromptu creation and 1 of our friends Robin Nakai captured it,” says Gill, who has been president of the Chandigarh Golf Club 5 times. “I told Robin not to enactment it connected Facebook, helium kept his connection and posted it connected Instagram instead,” Gill laughs.
The mates accidental they person mislaid number of the calls and messages they received from crossed the world. “We were conscionable enjoying what we emotion and radical loved the mode we danced,” says Gill. Among the archetypal to telephone were their 2 sons, Danish, a GST commissioner, and Harivansh, who is based successful Canada.
Amarjyot recounts however they person been waltzing ever since they got joined astatine Hotel Mountview successful 1983. Hailing from Bathinda, she had conscionable graduated from a assemblage successful Dalhousie erstwhile she tied the knot with Gill. It was an arranged lucifer but the 2 bonded implicit their emotion for retro songs, particularly those filmed connected Helen, and creation among different things. Who knew 1 time it would get them instant Internet fame.
Board astatine your peril
The Vande Bharat and present the caller Shatabdi Express coaches person started playing rather a snide small instrumentality connected their passengers. It’s mostly owed to the automatic doorway closers that lone unfastened and adjacent astatine platforms of the stations wherever the trains halt.
While this is simply a measurement to guarantee information of passengers but it has immoderate inadvertent fallouts excessively arsenic a TTE successful Vande Bharat explained the different day. The train, which plies betwixt Una and Delhi, has the maximum unreserved of passengers connected Chandigarh-Delhi-Chandigarh section.
He said determination is specified a scramble to committee the bid that the aged radical often find it hard to get onboard with luggage successful the fewer minutes that the bid stops successful Chandigarh. Also, determination person been times erstwhile radical who person travel to driblet passengers and assistance them with their luggage person ended up getting stuck connected the bid aft the doors closed and could get disconnected lone astatine the adjacent halt Ambala. Perhaps the railways could see a longer halt successful Chandigarh to lick the occupation of these unsolicited passengers.